Destruction provides a great deal of its real-time strategy and also the game’s whole identity, which evokes the WWII we know from the photographs, films and stories that memorialise the fierce fighting that swept through northern France, leaving hedgerows and fields, farms and towns in ruins.Īnd let’s be honest, it’s also a thrill to see your actions written into the world. Most of the features on a Company of Heroes map can be destroyed: fences, walls, buildings, the ground itself. Company of Heroes is a deeply dynamic RTS, something that’s all down to:

Confident pushes turn to disaster as the enemy punches through rear guards, and last-ditch defences are saved as the cavalry smashes through barricades.

In Company of Heroes, the battlefield is ever-changing, munitions cutting into the map new opportunities for flanking and to be flanked. Walls are blown wide open, buildings collapse on themselves.

The Tiger tanks come rolling in, the artillery comes thundering down. This is The Mechanic, where Alex Wiltshire invites developers to discuss the inner workings of their games.

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